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pricket

UK/ˈpɹɪkɪt/

pricket noun: a candle.

Noun

pricket (plural prickets)

  1. (obsolete) A candle.
  2. A spike for holding a single candle.
    • Lighting their way with tallow candles on pewter prickets.2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 174
  3. A male deer in its second year, whose antlers have not yet branched.
    • Near-synonyms: brocket, knobber, knobbler, spitter
    • he can stay / For the new-mown hay, / And startle the dappled prickets?1816, John Keats, For there's Bishop's Teign

pricket meaning in Tamil and Bengali

pricket in Tamil

கலைமான், ஈராட்டைக் கலைமான்

pricket in Bengali

একটি মোমবাতি

Synonyms of pricket

Forms of pricket

pluralprickets

Origin of pricket

From Middle English precat, preket, priket, pryket; equivalent to prick + -et. Earlier currency of the Middle English word is apparently implied by surnames and borrowings into Latin and Anglo-Norman.

Words that rhyme with pricket

Questions about pricket

What does pricket mean?
Pricket means a candle.
What is pricket in Tamil?
Pricket in Tamil is கலைமான், ஈராட்டைக் கலைமான். See Pricket meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pricket?
Pricket is a noun.
How do you pronounce pricket?
Pricket is pronounced /ˈpɹɪkɪt/ (UK).
What is the plural of pricket?
The plural of pricket is prickets.

Words near pricket in the dictionary

  1. pricker
  2. prickerbush
  3. prickerbushes
  4. prickers
  5. prickery
  6. pricket
  7. pricketh
  8. prickets
  9. Prickett
  10. prickette
  11. prickettes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pricket (page history and authors); pricket (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pricket (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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